Archive for November, 2002
The End of the Affair
We broke up two months ago, and since then, to make peace with her, I have had to make peace with myself. The end of the affair is this: Our callings and paths have grown too far apart, and I will not see her for years yet, so now we are friends, good friends, and [...]
El Al Hijack
Whoa. Looks like an Israeli-Arab tried to hijack an El Al plane bound for Istanbul from Tel Aviv. El Al is Israel’s major airline. Security guards on the plane overpowered the hijacker as he tried to storm the cockpit. Major news networks are all over it, but there’s nothing big on the web as of [...]
Bunting View
View of Baltimore looking East from MICA Bunting Center, the old digital arts lab. Photo taken with an Aiptek Mini Pencam 1.3MP.
AK 2735
A dark hatchbacked car, possibly a Honda, license plate AK 2735, just crashed into the back of my housemate’s van 20 minutes ago, leaving a huge dent in the rear and scraping the whole side, and pushing the van clear forward into the two cars in front. I was awakened by the bang of impact, [...]
I, Erasmus
What theologian am I? Apparently I am Desiderius Erasmus: You have great love for others and will do just about anything to show it to them. You are tolerant and avoid confrontations, so people generally are drawn to you. You are more quiet and reserved in front of strangers, but around some people you open [...]
Ripley’s Reeboks
Just watched Aliens for the first time in a looong time. Definitely the best in the whole series. Did anyone notice in the cargo robot finale that Ripley’s shoes were Reeboks?
The Justice League
This new Justice League cartoon is pretty darn good — but more than a bit dark; not for the little kiddies unless they’re significantly jaded. I’m a bit confused about geography, though: Superman works in Metropolis, and Batman in Gotham City, so where are these guys doing their stuff? And where do they find time [...]
Blogs in Ask Yahoo
Ask Yahoo has a question on blogs today.
iBook Woes Wectified
The iBook failed again today, and is as dead as it was on arrival three weeks ago. This happened without cause, right in the middle of an extremely crucial DC photo shoot for a multimedia piece which is due Wednesday. Panic. Okay, I’m posting from the Apple Store, and everything’s hunky-dory again. Apparently my hardcore [...]
Potatoland and Guinness
That was fun. Mark Napier displayed a few of his net art pieces up on an overhead projector, including a couple of live interactive pieces: P-Soup, a dynamically updating java painter which could take multiple simultaneous user input; and net.flag, a collaborative user-generated graphic project using elements of flags from countries around the world. In [...]